Maoming is a third-tier city.

Maoming is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, located on the coast of China's South China Sea, in the southwestern part of Guangdong Province, backed by the great southwest of the motherland. Jurisdiction of Maonan District, Dianbai District, acting in charge of Gaozhou City, Huazhou City, Xinyi City. Set Maoming Binhai New Area, Maoming High-tech Zone, Maoming ShuiDongWan New City three economic functional areas.

Maoming is located in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area, Beibu Gulf City Cluster and Hainan Free Trade Zone at the junction of the three national economic zones. Maoming is a nationally important petrochemical base and energy base.

The formation of petrochemicals, agricultural and sideline products, mineral resources, light industry and textiles, medicine and health, metal processing and advanced equipment manufacturing "six leading industries". Maoming County, the steady development of the economy, ranking in the forefront of Guangdong East Northwest. It is a prefecture-level city with the highest agricultural output value in Guangdong Province.

Geography of Maoming City

Maoming City, backed by the mountains and the sea, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, tilted from the northeast to the southwest, with an elevation of 1,704 meters at the highest point, the lowest point is 1.6 meters. The northern and northeastern YunKai, hook funnel, Yunwu three major mountain ranges coiled set. The rivers in the territory are crisscrossed and cut, forming a topography and landscape with distinct levels of mountains, hills, tablelands and plains.

The mountains are mainly formed by the intersection of the Yunkai Mountain Range that enters the territory from the north, the Dayunwu Mountain Range that enters from the northeast, and the Goule Mountain Range that enters from the northwest. There are 1,300 square kilometers of mountains above 500 meters above sea level in the border area between southeast Xinyi and northeast Gaozhou, and the main peak, Daitian Ding, at 1,704 meters above sea level, is the second highest peak in Guangdong Province.

Cotton top (Gaozhou, Xinyi junction) elevation of 1627 meters, goose Phoenix Roach (Dianbai, Yangchun junction) elevation of 1337 meters. This belt of mountains, forming the city's northern barrier, blocking the flow of cold air from the north in winter, to mitigate the harm of cold flow to the Ministry. Spring and summer lifting the warm mass from the south, forming the city's southern mountainous areas of abundant rainfall. The mountainous region has many rivers and abundant water resources, making it a major area for forestry and the development of hydropower.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia-Maoming City